Comments below...
On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Kyle Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>> I know I am totally new and just a volunteer, but I'd like to throw
> out
> my thoughts on the different wiki options.
There is no such thing as "just". Volunteer and community is what
Fluid is all about! Glad to have your voice, opinion, work on the
project!
>> I'd suggest that the goals of the fluid project have some influence
> over
> the design that is chosen. Certainly left nav is a strong pattern
> in how
> websites are used, however, if the goal is to develop a community of
> practice encouraging participation of the members, the classic wiki
> style may be a better choice. The classic style is becoming quite
> mainstream with wikipedia's popularity and has a strong affordance for
> enabling users to edit the site and feel a group ownership for the
> site.
>> From a practical standpoint the left nav option changes the wiki into
> much more of a traditional website as there is little affordance
> for the
> new user to directly interact with the content. If the goal of the
> fluid
> project is to produce a traditional website, the left nav is probably
> better. If the end goal is to create a wiki, I'd suggest that the
> classic style would be better.
Thinking about the goals and how we've been using the wiki thus far I
think it's a little of both. We want to concisely share information
about the project and the work we are doing with the community --
perhaps better supported by a a classic website AND we want to
collaboratively work together across distance on various documents
and activities -- perhaps better supported by a wiki style.
Regardless, personally I'm not sure how I feel about the left
navigation yet. I've been using confluence for several years now so
I'm a bit set in the alternative navigation structure. I want to
spend some time with the new navigation in context of our work before
having any real opinion.
-Daphne
>> Thoughts on these ideas?
>> Cheers,
>> -Kyle
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org> [mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary
> Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:52 PM
> To: fluid-work at fluidproject.org> Subject: Re: Changes to the wiki...
>> Daphne,
>> Theoretically. I edited the color scheme for the navigation, but it
> seems to have only partially taken. The navigation text should be
> dark
> grey, but for some reason it does not seem to have changed. Looking
> into it...
>> Gary
>> Daphne Ogle wrote:
>> Ditto! Looks great and I really like the left navigation.
>>>> One request... anyway to increase the contrast of the left nav? The
>> white text on light grey background is hard on my old eyes :)
>>>> -Daphne
>>>> On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Moore, Kathleen E wrote:
>>>>> I love what Gary is doing, but could we make the logo a little
> smaller?
>>> Its size makes the left-hand column take up more space than seems
>>> ideal--or is that also out-of-the-box?
>>>>>> Kathy
>>>>>> Kathleen Moore
>>> Web Manager, Information Technology Services Boston University
>>> School
>>>> of Management kemoore at bu.edu <mailto:kemoore at bu.edu>
>>> 617-353-2685
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org>>> <mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org>
>>> [mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary
>>> Thompson
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:53 PM
>>> To: fluid-work at fluidproject.org <mailto:fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Changes to the wiki...
>>>>>> +1 from my perspective as well. However:
>>>>>> It would be nice if that was an out-of-the-box option. From what I
>>> can tell, there two themes that ship with Confluence: 1) the default
>>> theme that we had been using with the actions at the top, and 2) the
>>> left-column navigation theme that I switched to. It seems that
>>> there
>>>> are no easy options to specify where the page actions are
>>> located; in
>>>> the left-navigation theme, they are "hard-coded" to appear in the
>>> left column under the navigation.
>>>>>> A combination of the two would be ideal - left navigation with the
>>> page actions more prominent. There may be other themes available
>>> from the Confluence community, and/or it is possible to make some
>>> edits to the theme and layout templates. I'm trying to not go that
>>> route, however, and was hopeful to be able to make those changes
>>> through the standard administration interfaces.
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>> Joseph Scheuhammer wrote:
>>>> +1
>>>>>>>> Colin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> ... since these page operations are so common, perhaps we should
>>>>> put them somewhere a bit more prominent?
>>> What
>>>>> do others think?
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>>>http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work>>>> Daphne Ogle
>> Senior Interaction Designer
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> Educational Technology Services
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